For immediate release 23rd June 2017 The Court of Appeal has granted Preston New Road Action Group (PNRAG) permission to appeal the planning court’s earlier judgment to allow fracking in rural Lancashire. In April, the planning court dismissed PNRAG’s challenge…

We are delighted that the court has agreed that there is validity in our arguments and they have therefore upheld a right of appeal against the decision to allow fracking at the Preston New Road site. We have put forward credible…

Formal legal proceedings have now been issued at the High Court against the Government’s decision to grant permission for fracking in Lancashire. The legal challenge has been issued by the Preston New Road Action Group (PNRAG), represented by law firm…

A Champion of Localism? Tory MP, Brandon Lewis, made a potentially lethal statement for the Conservatives regarding fracking and localism last week, during a Radio 4 Any Questions show. Listen to it again here, where he champions planning decisions made by local…